Message-Id: <199609231957.MAA06160@hungary.it.earthlink.net>
From: "David Perrell" <davidp@earthlink.net>
To: <www-html@w3.org>, "MegaZone" <megazone@livingston.com>
Subject: Re: Putting default text into a TEXTAREA (fwd)
Date: Mon, 23 Sep 1996 12:54:17 -0700
MegaZone wrote:
> Once upon a time Pat Max shaped the electrons to say...
> >one line long? The TEXTAREA tag does not support VALUE=, and INPUT
>
> Ah - but it does in a way. You put the default text between the open
> and closing tags.
And is that text supposed to be treated as PRE?
MSIE doesn't correctly strip a newline after <PRE>, so that given this:
<TEXTAREA NAME="Comments" COLS=40 ROWS=3>
Some text here that was added by a CGI script that
requires data replacement tags to be the only
element on the line.
</TEXTAREA>
The text will begin on the second line of the text box.
David